torrens

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɔr.rẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɔr.rens]

Present participle of torreō.

torrēns (genitive torrentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. scorching, burning, parching
2. roasting, baking

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Probably from the participle of Proto-Italic *torz-ē-, itself from a stative verb formed to Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”) (whence transitive torreō).^[1] The same stative formation may be paralleled in Old High German dorrēn, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥s-eh₁(ye)-ti.^[2]

torrēns (genitive torrentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. burning, hot, inflamed
2. (of streams) rushing, roaring, boiling, impetuous, rapid

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Substantive form from torrēns (“rushing”).

torrēns m (genitive torrentis); third declension

1. torrent (rushing stream)
2. stream

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• “torrens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “torrens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "torrens", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “torrens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.